Originates in Karnataka but main course is in TamilnaduEvery year the water from this river is used as a scapegoat/political issue in Karnataka to ask TN to give electricity in xchange for water. Inspite of the Supreme Court ruling in TNs favor the charade will continue on...

The DECCAN platform itself has names of rivers flowing in the DECCAN plateau of Southern IndiaReply

I am a little bit surprised, but in a good, efficiency of production kind of way. The frequency goals can't be that high though, which explains why the desktop cores of the performance segment are still Piledrivers in 2013. Ah, I just saw the previous Anand's post about the more synthesizable designs. TSMC's process must have a great potential.Reply

I guess this dashes any hopes of a "quick response" to Kepler with the already rumored HD 8900 series. Looks to be 2013 at the earliest, so if AMD releases a new high-end SKU it'll just be an OC'd or refreshed Tahiti or an X2 part.Reply

..but when do we get OpenCL double-precision FP support in the GPU section of the APUs?

I'm hoping I'm not waiting till Kalevi.For SP, the A8s are amazing processors for the money. If they added DP support, there'd be cheap clusters of these at every University (there's one in server room now).Reply